JOAN BAEZ: BAPTISM:A JOURNEY THROUGH OUR TIME
Joan Baez's most unusual album, Baptism is of a piece with the concept albums of the late '60s, but more ambitious than most and different from all of them. Baez by this time was immersed in various causes, concerning the Vietnam War, the human condition, and the general state of the world, and it seemed as though every note of music that she sang was treated as important - sometimes in a negative way by her opponents; additionally, popular music was changing rapidly, and even rock groups that had seldom worried in their music about too much beyond the singer's next sexual conquest were getting serious. Baptism was Baez getting more serious than she already was, right down to the settings of her music, and redirecting her talent from folk song to art song, complete with orchestral accompaniment. Baptism is primarily for Baez completists, however, although it is also a singular reminder for '60s history buffs that not all of the antiwar movement's music, or the work coming out of the folk scene in 1968, was necessarily loud, harsh, or bitter.
Tracklist:
1.Old Welsh Song 2.I Saw The Vision Of Armies 3.Minister Of War 4.Song In The Blood 5.Casida Of The Lament 6.Of The Dark Past 7.London 8.In Guernica 9.Who Murdered The Minutes 10.Oh, Little Child 11.No Man Is An Island 12.From Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man 13.Hushabye (All The Pretty Little Horses) 14.Childhood III 15.The Magic Wood 16.Poems From The Japanese 17.Colours 18.All In Green Went My Love Riding 19.Gacela Of The Dark Death 20.The Parable Of The Old Man And The Young 21.Evil 22.Epitaph For A Poet 23.Mystic Numbers-36 Wedding Song 24.When The Shy Star Goes Forth In Heaven 25.The Angel 26.Old Welsh Song (Reprise)
Lineup:
Joan Baez - vocals, guitar